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Tuesday night Prime Minister Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield held an emergency press conference. New...

A few years ago, Simon Sinek came to the mainstream with The Golden Circle concept: Start with Why. In short, he states all organisations...

I've always been fascinated by hostage situations, and thought we must have a lot to learn from hostage negotiators. Then, I've thought -...

We're emerging or have emerged from lockdown. Some people are championing working from home. Personally, I was at home in a crisis trying...

At the beginning of the year, The Training Practice joined the #OneWord365 challenge: find one word that will help you set the tone for...

Back in January, when I thought I already knew how to wash my hands properly, I chose 'enjoy' as my #oneword for 2020.

Thomas Paine, a 1700s political activist in the US, famously said, the pen is mightier than the sword. That’s because words change the...

Leadership is central to what we do at The Training practice. Many of the conversations we have come back to leadership—of projects,...

Can helping help you? That's a question I posed in a webinar recently—thinking about how to make the most of helping at work. The short...

A few weeks back we decided to up our quiz game. Not content with simply ploughing through the Stuff quizzes, we decided that on Fridays...

One of the great joys of life for me is browsing library and bookshop shelves. You don't know what you'll come across, what you'll learn...

For the past few months, conspiracy theories have been running wild about what 5G networks are and aren't doing (newsflash: they do not...

At Hilary's Tea & Toast webinar on Build an agile mindset she quoted Mike Tyson. In the lead-up to a fight, Tyson was asked about how he...

I was going to start this blog with - Now's the time for creative thinking - but that misses the point. We shouldn't wait for a crisis to...

I heard this phrase on RNZ National over the weekend—it was used to talk about the illusion of perfect relationships. Philosopher Alain...